Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla isn't capable of saying no, even when she says no. But she's taking a huge risk for her student, Sammy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna goes to her job interview. How did she do? Should she have answered any questions differently? Are there some important questions she neglected to ask? Do you think she will get the job?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara shows us the acrylic water-based paints that the family uses to decorate ornaments, frames, and masks, among other things.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika covers these super tricky combined pronouns: glielo, gliela, glieli, gliene, and gliele.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla has gotten quite a scare, but fortunately, she's fine. She has two conversations, one with the police inspector and one with her husband.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna is on tenterhooks waiting for the phone call that could change the course of her life. When she can't bear it any longer, the phone rings. No caller ID.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tamara and Tania show some of the items that can be bought either unfinished or decorated in their shop. They demonstrate the use of glass paints and outline the steps used in decoupage.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The segment looks at how Mussolini patterned his fiercely nationalist rhetoric after poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, while harkening back to the glory of Imperial Rome. The song in the segment refers to Balilla, an 18th century Genoese boy. In 1746, Balilla threw a stone at an Austrian official of the occupying Hapsburg Empire, which led to the War of the Austrian Succession.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A harmless waste paper basket fire in the classroom gives our Professor an idea. She engages the help of one of her students.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Marika wraps up her lessons on combined pronouns in which ci acts as a stand in for places.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This evening Camilla's mother will take care of Livia, who is complaining about the dog again. Camilla and her husband go to the opening of an art gallery, where they have a hard time finding the appropriate words when meeting the artist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna starts work at Phones and More. Her first task is to call a list of publications to find out about ad space. When she gives her email address, she uses the word chiocciola [snail] for the @ sign. Koreans also say "snail shell" when they see an @ sign, while the Dutch see a monkey's tail, and the Norwegians see a pig's tail.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Berardi shows up at the gallery opening, and Camilla exchanges a few words with him. This doesn't go unnoticed by the gallery owner, who is very curious. Meanwhile, Camilla's husband has a bizarre conversation with the artist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A great deal of effort went into purging foreign words from the Italian language under the fascist regime. Newspapers, magazines, and book publishers were at the forefront of the effort and were tasked with finding Italian replacements for foreign words and expressions. Many fascist-era terms have fallen by the wayside, but some succeeded and are still in use today. As an example, the word manifesto [poster] was successfully introduced to replace the French term affiche.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla gets her husband to help with the case by invoking her dead father and concocting a story about playing Lotto.
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